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Shue Yan University Prospectus 2023-24

The University Library

The Shue Yan University Library Complex is located on the west side of the main
Academic Building and was opened on 15 November 1995. It is multi-functional and has 19
storeys. Facilities include the International Conference Hall, the Library, the Counselling and
Research Centre, academic staff offices and accommodations for staff and visiting scholars.
The Library occupies 5½ levels (the ground floor, second to sixth floor). Each floor covers
about 850 square metres.

The ever-expanding Library collection has over 2 million items. The electronic collection
includes 1.3 million e-book titles, 141,000 e-journal titles, as well as other electronic reference
tools, news, and online videos. Those e-resources are distributed across 161 database
subscriptions, including ACM Digital Library, APA Psychology databases, BrowZine,
EBSCOHost databases, Films on Demand, Gale Reference Complete, HyRead ebooks,
JSTOR, Lexis Advance Hong Kong, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Scholarship Online,
PressReader, Project MUSE, ProQuest Central, WiseNews, 中國期刊全文數據庫, 文淵閣四
庫全書, 中國博士學位論文全文數據庫, 中國優秀碩士學位論文全文數據庫, 四部叢刊電子版,
超星中文電子書庫, 華藝電子書, and 瀚堂典藏古籍數據庫, among others. Bloomberg Terminal
and Refinitiv Eikon workstations are located on the Library 3/F to provide the latest financial
information. Scopus is a multi-disciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the content of
peer-reviewed journals. EndNote and RefWorks are citation management platforms available
for staff and students to manage their citations in assignments and researches. The physical
collection consists of over 350,000 volumes, including books, references, annual reports,
research reports, dissertations, student reports, 33,000 bound journal volumes, and 21,000
non-print items.

The above-mentioned resources are searchable via the library resources discovery
platform, Discover@ShueYan, and most e-resources can be accessed via the platform on
campus or remotely, and on desktop or mobile devices.

The Library partners with other local or overseas academic libraries to provide interlibrary
loans and document delivery services. The reader’s cards to other academic libraries expand
the accessibility of Library users to academic resources via physical visits to the libraries. The
Library also organizes user educational activities such as library instruction classes,
orientation, information days, and book exhibitions, among others. The Institutional Repository
preserves and disseminates research outputs of the University to capture the intellectual vitality
of scholars and facilitate scholarly communication. The University Archives collects the
valuable memory and assets of Shue Yan's history.

It is noteworthy that in January 1996, the then State Education Commission of China
donated to Shue Yan 3,097 volumes (1,793 titles) of rare Chinese books, thus making a

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